Collins Classroom Classics - King Lear: A-level set text student edition

Paperback

Exam board: AQA B, Edexcel, Eduqas, Cambridge Assessment International Education

Level & Subject: AS and A level English Literature

First teaching: September 2015; September 2019

Next exams: 2025

This edition of King Lear is perfect for A-level students, with the complete play in an accessible format, on-page notes, introduction setting the context, timeline, character and theme indexes.

  • Affordable high quality complete play for King Lear
  • Demystify vocabulary with notes on the page and concise commentary
  • Set the scene with perfectly pitched introductions that introduce key contexts, concerns and stylistic features, and examine different performances and interpretations
  • Recall plot summaries at the beginning of each scene
  • Support A Level revision and essay writing with theme and character indexes
  • Help with social, historical and literary context with the bespoke timeline of Shakespeare’s life and times

RRP: £3.00

Imprint

Collins

ISBN

978-0-00-840047-7

Publication Date

27-08-2020

Format

Paperback

Pages

352 pages

Dimensions

111x178mm

Product Description

Exam board: AQA B, Edexcel, Eduqas, Cambridge Assessment International Education

Level & Subject: AS and A level English Literature

First teaching: September 2015; September 2019

Next exams: 2025

This edition of King Lear is perfect for A-level students, with the complete play in an accessible format, on-page notes, introduction setting the context, timeline, character and theme indexes.

  • Affordable high quality complete play for King Lear
  • Demystify vocabulary with notes on the page and concise commentary
  • Set the scene with perfectly pitched introductions that introduce key contexts, concerns and stylistic features, and examine different performances and interpretations
  • Recall plot summaries at the beginning of each scene
  • Support A Level revision and essay writing with theme and character indexes
  • Help with social, historical and literary context with the bespoke timeline of Shakespeare’s life and times

Author

William Shakespeare and Collins GCSE, Edited by Peter Alexander and Maria Cairney

Maria Cairney currently teaches in a sixth form college in Manchester. She is an experienced A Level English Literature and English Language teacher and examiner with a PhD in Victorian literature and a special interest in 19th century serialised fiction by writers such as Charles Dickens and Arthur Conan Doyle. Before becoming a teacher, Maria was also, for many years, a magazine journalist and editor.

Imprint

Collins

ISBN

978-0-00-840047-7

Publication Date

27-08-2020

Format

Paperback

Pages

352 pages

Dimensions

111x178mm

Product Description

Exam board: AQA B, Edexcel, Eduqas, Cambridge Assessment International Education

Level & Subject: AS and A level English Literature

First teaching: September 2015; September 2019

Next exams: 2025

This edition of King Lear is perfect for A-level students, with the complete play in an accessible format, on-page notes, introduction setting the context, timeline, character and theme indexes.

  • Affordable high quality complete play for King Lear
  • Demystify vocabulary with notes on the page and concise commentary
  • Set the scene with perfectly pitched introductions that introduce key contexts, concerns and stylistic features, and examine different performances and interpretations
  • Recall plot summaries at the beginning of each scene
  • Support A Level revision and essay writing with theme and character indexes
  • Help with social, historical and literary context with the bespoke timeline of Shakespeare’s life and times

Author

William Shakespeare and Collins GCSE, Edited by Peter Alexander and Maria Cairney

Maria Cairney currently teaches in a sixth form college in Manchester. She is an experienced A Level English Literature and English Language teacher and examiner with a PhD in Victorian literature and a special interest in 19th century serialised fiction by writers such as Charles Dickens and Arthur Conan Doyle. Before becoming a teacher, Maria was also, for many years, a magazine journalist and editor.